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R. MALCOLM MACDONALD, the, Dominions Secre- tary, is writing a letter to General Hertzog, Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa.

Mr. MacDonald jun. wins re- Phone 27778/9. gard by his personal charm and earns respect by his cautious competence in polities. Pray that he exercises both in his pre-` sent composition.

Hongkong Telegraph.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 1937.

PROFITEERING

There is, apparently, no inten- tion on the part of the Govern- ment to attempt the control of, rent and food prices at the Bioment. The reason for this policy of inaction is stated to lie

For Mr. MacDonald's letter may rank one day among the most important documents ever penned in the history of the Bri- tish Empire.

General Hertzog has asked Britain to give him a piece of territory-or rather three pieces -altogether about three times the size of this country. Mr. MacDonald may have to tell him, "Dear General, kindly call some their old tribal life. They have other time."

the

ZCHUANALAND

AZILAND

British. Like the Ulsterman in

CREATEST of all Afri- GR

can chiefs was the. Basuto, Mohesh. The Boers.. pressed upon his people. Ho hired a scribe and wrote to the British. Sir Harry Smith pro- mised him our protection.

But the Home Government were not ready to push so far north. Mohosh's border affrays got him into trouble a few years later, and the British arrived not is friends, but foes. Mohesh bent them back, and then sent an envoy after them entreating them to make peace with him.

At last he was heard. His country was put under the Bri- tish flag. But when the Cape was granted self-government the British connection was broken.

"Silence like the darkness of night has descended on the peo- ple," said Mohesh. The Basutos broke out into insurrection. The Basuto red flag with the black erocodile on a white ground was raised. They were defeated.

Rhodes went up himself to dis- arm them. He came back and told the Cape Government, "You have tried to put the best boy among the native alocks."

races in the

Accepted at Inst by England, the great chief died.

On his death-bed Mohesh said: "I have become old....I am glad that my people should have been allowed to rest and lie under the" large folds of the flag of England before I am no more.”

To the Queen he wrote, "My country is your blanket and my people the lice in it."

REYHOUNDS

and

more so the Union Government

champagne brought down King Umbadini of the Swazis. In return for these pro- ducts of civilisation he granted concession after concession, in- LAND THE TROUBLE IS ABOUT

deed concessions of concessions. General Hertzog claims that He was glad to have the British become farm labourers, dock la- these are the "further terri- come in and take charge of his mineworkers, the tories" that were promised to hopeless finances. So the third You need to say such things bourers and

Protectorate passed to us. when dealing with black proletariat of the Rand the Union.

Economically these lands, tactfully General Hertzog and the hard, and the const belt.

Bechuanas, BUT the

which are some of the best in shrewdl part of the Dutch ascen- The farm labourers earn from

Basutos and Swazis South Africa, are dependent on dandy who now rule at the Cape. 69. to 10%. a week. The gold don't want to go under the South in a belief that the situation will All the more so because the miners get 2s. a day, supple African Government. Very hard the Union. To make them still Indiealand in question, the British mented by some social services. they fought to belong to the are offering them £35,000 to im- shortly adjust itself.

Protectorates of Bechuanaland, They live in compounds. tions ar. however, that the Busutoland, Swaziland, has al-

The conditions may be as good freland, they will-kick up hell to prove their soil and their herds. Picturesque Tshekedi, the Re- adjustment may be merely in the ready been promised to as the New Eldorado can afford, remain under the Union Jack.

gent of the Bamanwato tribe, for South Africa really lives Rhodes tried to grab direction of stabilising present Union Government.

largest of the Bechuanas, who But for Bechuanaland. He wanted unusually heavy Costs unless

was in 1907 that Bri- practically on its gold.

was deposed by Britain and re- IT

tain, after beating the the wealth that the gold getting build his railway through it up instated a little time ago, is one prompt and effective measures

who views this ufler with are taken to stop the profiteer Bours, gave them self-govern- brings, South African farming to the north. He proposed that ment-"a risk," said the young would be entirely bankrupt, for his Chartered Company should

suspicion. ing. If we are to judge from Winston Churchill, "but a glori- the soil of that beautiful, roman- take it over,

"Is it the people that the Union tie land is poor and thirsty. The Bechuana chief took ship Government want? Is it the reported official Statement, the ous risk."

There are few other industries for England. They bought land?" he asks. In the South Africa Act of Government considers the reason

themselves top-hats and frock-Looking south, the people of 1909 it was provided that on the in the country, for the rise in prices, at least so address to the King by both

If ever the bankers 'should de- coats and called on Mr. Joseph the Protectorates are not tempt- far as one commodity is con- Houses of the Union Parliament cide to leave the gold under the Chamberlain, who sat in the seat ed. They see there that the na- cerned, as being obscure. The further territories might be Rand reefs instead of digging it that Malcolm MacDonald now tive people are subjected to ever-

increasing disabilities. public, which has to pay, is under transferred to their rule.

"Joe" was out. They were In the schedule of the Act, the pavements of London and

The native franchise, limited no delusions in the matter; it however (where the best dyna- New York, then South Africa asked to call again when he came as it was, has been still further believes, and with every justifica- mite is often buried), certain would have to reconstruct her back from holiday. They stay-restricted. The Native Service ed until the winter, and they in Contract Act imposes heavy tion, that prices have been put conditions were attached. The life from top to bottom.

Meantime, the country clings terviewed him at last. Said taxation on the coloured people, up with the deliberate intention principal one was that the Im-

at West- to its anchor of gold and exploits Khana, "There is no Government driving them by economic pres perial Government of profiting from' present condi-minster should have the right to to the limit its situation as the we can trust as we trust that of sure out of their kraals to toil in tions. What justification there override. within twelve months chief custodian of the world's the great Queen. We beg her the mines,

Still more not to throw us away as if we

The Native Land Act prevents is for the professed belief in of its enactment any laws affect- most uneless metal.

ing the natives of the transferred men are needed for the mines, were troublesome children who official circles that the increases territories.

Where can

they possibly be will not listen to our mothers their acquisition of land outside the reservations. The Pass found? In Bechuanaland, Basu- words." They were annexed, are unlikely to be maintained,

That condition can obtain nó toland and Swaziland.

as they desired. we cannot imagine. The pro- longer. For by the Statute of fiteer, once he puts on the screw, Westminster, 1932, Great Bri-p

up in order to rebury it under fills.

Laws compel them to conform to

a curfew at night. The colour bar stops them from competing with even the poorest whites in

is not in the habit of relieving tuin gave up the right to inter"Howls" From the Schoolroom skillet or semi-skilled occupa-

the pressure until he is forced

fere in the affairs all Dominions.

to do so. Thus, so long as the

Government remains quiescent,

"A.

of

"A draftting

lls vices,

tions.

do?

the

The Bechuanas, Basutos and MANY Liberals, and na-46 MORGANATIC marriage, liked. This was called the Restora- the Swazis look to Britain with a

turally the Socialist

according to one young how-¡tion."

pathetic hope that we "will not we may expect to see the level Party, hailed that Act as aler, "is a marriage where the Queen "An invoice," wrote a bright pupil, sell them down the river." maintained, if not actually in-charter of liberty, "freeing the cannot have any children unless the is words that one said inwardly and

State lots her." When asked to not aloud," "Caoutchoue." he added, WHAT are we to

they When all is said and free Dominions from the Im- explain what a inke was, another "is what people say when KUZAAKANKAREKFRAGEN | creased.

We promised perialist control of Britain." scholar gave this unfortunate defini- sneeze."

Union that they should have ad- done, Hongkong is eight hundred However, the charter of liberty tion, "A lake, sir, is a damned river." Yet another howler states that: miles from the war zone and might also be a charter

"Esau," we learn from an exam. "John Balliol was a helpless and ditional territories some time or except to the limited extent to licence, permitting the Dominion paper, "was a chap who wrote fables, useless King because he was born other. Two years ago Mr. J. H.

Governments to do what they pottage." "When some

He sold the copyright for a mess of without a buckbone in him" Talk-Thomas, then Dominions Secre- which it relies on imports from please with their natives.

people are ing of Edward VII, he says "He was tary, repented this pledge though ill," states another young scholar, the best King we ever hind, because North China, its supplies from

Indeed, the question is now "they often lose their consciences." he hadn't the power of doing what in very vague terms, no date, outside are in no way interrupt- acutely raised: Since the safe- A bright historian informs us that feed, and it was all the better and subject to two provisions: The Duke of Marlborough, (1) that the British Parliament. ed. It is, in fact, admitted that guards against penal legislation! "Wolsey saved his life by dying on in his opinion, was "A man of very should approve the transfer; (2)

the way from York to London." We nine character, are removed, how far does the also learn from him that "A lot of which were

that the natives themselves in respect of certain stable com-original contract hold?

Englishmen were Imprisoned in the

we are surprised) should be consulted. modities existing stocks are well

Black Hole of Calcutta with only one to learn, is a man who works in a

It is safe to say that the Bri- in excess of normal. Yet it is under the rule of the Union of

There are 6,500,000 natives little window."

bank, and opens and, shuts the door "A leper is a fierce wild animal, for customers." Also, Edward I had tish Parliament does not approve commodities, and South Africa.

Castic, the transfer at this moment. It Is a statement culled from an exam. a son born at Carnarvon A good half of others which are freely available, them have broken away from and "A myth is a female namely Edward 11, and the remains is certain that the natives would

are still be scen to this day." which are being made materially

Another plece of nonsense states "Six animals peculiar to the Aretle overwhelmingly reject it on a that, "Walter Scott was imprisoned regions," writes a promising pupil, plebiscite. If we handed them dearer to the consumer. Rents the other, but merely in order in the Tower because he could not "are three seals and three bears. A over in such circumstances the of Chinese property are also on that profiteers may feather their pay his debts. He wrote the Waverlyax," he added, "la a member of repercussions throughout black Ley Novels while there, but was after the cat family: its skin is spotted Africa would be terrific and the upward grade, due to an nests. The time for action in words burnt alive. He also brought with very sharp eyes."

tobacco from Virginia, so-called ofter "Whenever David played to Saul," might be fatal for us. obvious desire to exploit the such a situation is not when the his beloved mistress

So are we to tell South Africa's Queen Eliza-wrote the young Biblical student, "the

Intter always kept a javelin handy." Premier, in effect, that we can't Hituation created by the arrival evil has become pronounced,

"A conjunction," said another how another, of refugees from the mainland. which appears to be the Govern-taught the Greta to su drum, "aller, "is a place where two railway trust her to handle her natives, linės meet.” "The poll tax," we also though we do trust New Zen- From whatever angle the posi-ment attitude; the movement Raleigh named "becy" after him in learn, "was a tax on parrots," and land, Australia, and Canada?

honour of the Virgin Queen." tion is viewed, it is clear that the needs to be nipped in the bud.

"chaplets are small places of wor- It is interesting to learn that "the ship,” According to another young

I do not envy Mr. Malcolm community is being forced to pay It is for this reason that the grizzly bear builds its den in the hopeful "The opposite of evergreen MacDonald's job in writing his.

Rockies where it sits still and griz- is ñevergreen," more for the necessities of life public looks to the authorities to zles all day." "Charles II," accord-

letter to General Hertzog. It is sad to know that "Some and for accommodation, not by temporise no longer, but to acting to one of his young historians, women are pretty and some are tea-

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